Someone used that phrase on the boards today, and I resolved to add it to my lexicon. And it’s applicable now, because given the events and my writings of the last couple days, I want to make sure an important point doesn’t get lost here. I still want Charlie Weis to succeed. I have no…
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It Just Goes to Show
Show what, I’m not at all sure. Nothing, it seems, has been what it seems for the last couple weeks. Charlie Weis was fired, and then he was not. Jack Swarbrick was meeting with him next Monday, then it became last Tuesday when both were jetting around four time zones on the left coast. A…
Weis to Return
Irisheyes reported tonight that Charlie Weis will return to coach the Irish in 2009.
Show Me The (Idiots Who Wasted My) Money
Charlie Weis’ buyout number is getting to be like the Loch Ness monster … the more ridiculous the claims, the more you wonder if it exists at all. The latest report comes from WNDU: a figure on the wrong side of $20 million. Although no one knows for sure, that number would be consistent with…
No Mercy in Troy
Notre Dame closed the regular season and possibly the Charlie Weis era with a whimper on Saturday as USC embarrassed the Irish by 38-3. The Trojan defense was so dominant that Notre Dame did not even record a first down until the final play of the third quarter. Meanwhile, Mark Sanchez led a balanced USC…